Anne V. D. M. Kayem

This book highlights the importance of digital privacy as an allied and supporting field to cybersecurity. The authors aim to underscore the fact that digital privacy is important sub-field of cybersecurity and must be differentiated from the social science and digital humanities view of privacy. This book discusses digital privacy from various viewpoints in relation to cyber-security. The authors begin with Chapter 1, by emphasizing the fact that digital privacy must be viewed and addressed as a collective (and not an individual) problem. Therefore, solutions designed must include several perspectives ranging from decision making algorithms that assess the cost-benefit ratio for all parties involved in the digital operation. In Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5, the authors discuss the implications from the adversarial and benign perspectives, of transforming data to ensure privacy. The authors also discuss performance, and some solutions to help alleviate this especially in scenarios involving large data and/or low powered/processing systems. In Chapters 6 and 7, the authors discuss the benefits of supporting user decision making and preventing privacy breaches that arise from inadvertent disclosures of sensitive personal information. Chapter 8 discusses possible avenues for future work centred around aspects, such as data transformation to support privacy preserving machine learning, privacy decision making and disclosure risks. This book targets researchers working in digital privacy and cybersecurity as well as advanced-level students studying this field. Policy makers in governments and organizations will also find this book to be a valuable resource.

Information security systems have become more popular due to the prevalence of criminal activity over benign attacks. Because computer systems are constantly changing, it is important to explore new security measures and unconventional approaches to solving issues. Information Security in Diverse Computing Environments provides the latest empirical research and theoretical frameworks in the area of information security. This reference book presents research on developing sufficient security measures for new environments by discussing challenges faced by researchers as well as unconventional solutions to these problems. This book will be useful for academics, students, professionals, executives, and researchers who want to improve their understanding of the role of information security at different levels of the knowledge society.

Cryptographic access control (CAC) is an approach to securing data by encrypting it with a key, so that only the users in possession of the correct key are able to decrypt the data and/or perform further encryptions. Applications of cryptographic access control will benefit companies, governments and the military where structured access to information is essential. The purpose of this book is to highlight the need for adaptability in cryptographic access control schemes that are geared for dynamic environments, such as the Internet. Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control presents the challenges of designing hierarchical cryptographic key management algorithms to implement Adaptive Access Control in dynamic environments and suggest solutions that will overcome these challenges. Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control is a cutting-edge book focusing specifically on this topic in relation to security and cryptographic access control. Both the theoretical and practical aspects and approaches of cryptographic access control are introduced in this book. Case studies and examples are provided throughout this book.

Cryptographic access control (CAC) is an approach to securing data by encrypting it with a key, so that only the users in possession of the correct key are able to decrypt the data and/or perform further encryptions. Applications of cryptographic access control will benefit companies, governments and the military where structured access to information is essential. The purpose of this book is to highlight the need for adaptability in cryptographic access control schemes that are geared for dynamic environments, such as the Internet. Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control presents the challenges of designing hierarchical cryptographic key management algorithms to implement Adaptive Access Control in dynamic environments and suggest solutions that will overcome these challenges. Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control is a cutting-edge book focusing specifically on this topic in relation to security and cryptographic access control. Both the theoretical and practical aspects and approaches of cryptographic access control are introduced in this book. Case studies and examples are provided throughout this book.